“Music Education for Making Citizens:The Hull-House Music School and Immigrant Assimilation”Glenda Goodman, Harvard University
“ ‘Who Has the School Has the Future!’: Child Education, Gender, and the Socialist Labor Movement in Germany, 1880-1914”Mark Bullock, University of Illinois at Chicago

“Efficient Servants of Democracy: The Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, Social Work and the Politics of Charity”Anthony Todd, University of Chicago
“Women, Corruption, and Catholicism: The Making of a Murder and Chicago’s Reconstruction-Era Nativism”Mimi Cowan, Boston College

“Prairie Fires: The 1960s Urban Rebellions as Class Protest in Three Midwestern Cities”Ashley Howard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Making the Modern Slum and Urbanizing Poverty; Bombay and its Oceanic Frontier, 1870-1930”Sheetal Chhabria, Columbia University